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The engineering and regulatory field of keeping self-driving cars safe, spanning crash investigations, remote operation and first-responder procedures.
PoliMove's driverless car hit Unimore's braking car in a 155 mph crash at A2RL's Imola race, after Unimore's car lost lidar and radar and stopped itself. PoliMove says its car saw the hazard, so the harder design problem is how a failing vehicle stops with traffic close behind.
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Tesla's new first responder guidance makes a company employee on a support line part of the emergency scene. A former fire chief says the extra steps land on an officer who is still working out what happened.
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Tesla's guidance for a Cybercab stuck in an intersection begins with a call to the company and bottoms out at a crew shoving the car by hand. The quoted passages never say how they get a dead one into Neutral.
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The MIT and Motional method, published in Nature, routes a pretrained planner's final decision through concepts a person can read, which is how the team claims faithful explanations and unchanged driving at once.
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Robotaxi Tracker says every Austin ride it logged over two weeks ran unsupervised, seven months after Musk said the monitors were gone. The instrument is one person's crowdsourced site.
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